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Hellenization revisited : shaping a Christian response within the Greco-Roman world / edited by Wendy E. Helleman.

Contributor(s): Helleman, Wendy E, 1945- | Institute for Christian Studies
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [1994]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 544 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0819195448 (paper : alk. paper); 9780819195449 (paper : alk. paper)Subject(s): Gnosticism -- Congresses | Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 -- Congresses | Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. -- Congresses | Christianity and other religions -- Greek -- Congresses | Christianity and culture -- CongressesDDC classification: 273/.1 LOC classification: BT1390 | .H45 1994Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Cosmic and meta-cosmic theology in Greek philosphy and Gnosticism / Abraham P. Bos -- Aristotle and the Jewish God (Response to A.P. Bos) / William E. Arnal -- Gnosticism and early Christianity / Edwin M. Yamauchi -- Yamauchi and pre-Christian Gnosticism (Response to E.M. Yamauchi) / Michel Desjardins -- Adolf von Harnack and the concept of Hellenization / William V. Rowe -- Alexandria or Athens as the essence of Hellenization: a historian responds to a philosopher / Barry W. Henaut -- Creatio ex nihilo in Philo / Albert M. Wolters -- Mastery of the passions : Philo, 4 Maccabees and the earliest Christianity / David C. Aune -- Voice of the serpent : Philo's Epicureanism / A. Peter Booth -- Plight of woman : Philo's blind spot? / Dorothy Sly -- "Praeparatio evangelica" and "spoliatio" motifs as patterns of Hellenistic Judaism in Philo of Alexandria / Daniel N. Jastram -- Muddying the water : metaphors for exegesis / John H. Corbett --
Harnack, Marcion and the argument of antiquity / Daniel H. Williams -- Acts of John: the gnostic transformation of a Christian community / Paul G. Schneider -- Trimorphic Protennoia and the wisdom tradition / Rosemary Halford -- Gnosis, theology and historical method / Schuyler Brown -- Gnosticism and the classical tradition / Scott C. Carroll -- Judaism and Gnosticism / Michel Desjardins -- Nomos empsychos in Philo and Clement of Alexandria / John Martens -- Gnosticism as heresy: the response of Irenaeus / Terrance Tiessen -- Tertullian on Athens and Jerusalem / Wendy E. Helleman -- "Spoils from Egypt," between Jews and Gnostics / Lawrence E. Frizzell -- Clement of Alexandria: instructions on how women should live / M. Eleanor Irwin -- Symbol and science in early Christian gnosis / Padraig O'Cleirigh.

Proceedings of a conference held in summer 1991 in Toronto, Ont., sponsored by the Institute for Christian Studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cosmic and meta-cosmic theology in Greek philosphy and Gnosticism / Abraham P. Bos -- Aristotle and the Jewish God (Response to A.P. Bos) / William E. Arnal -- Gnosticism and early Christianity / Edwin M. Yamauchi -- Yamauchi and pre-Christian Gnosticism (Response to E.M. Yamauchi) / Michel Desjardins -- Adolf von Harnack and the concept of Hellenization / William V. Rowe -- Alexandria or Athens as the essence of Hellenization: a historian responds to a philosopher / Barry W. Henaut -- Creatio ex nihilo in Philo / Albert M. Wolters -- Mastery of the passions : Philo, 4 Maccabees and the earliest Christianity / David C. Aune -- Voice of the serpent : Philo's Epicureanism / A. Peter Booth -- Plight of woman : Philo's blind spot? / Dorothy Sly -- "Praeparatio evangelica" and "spoliatio" motifs as patterns of Hellenistic Judaism in Philo of Alexandria / Daniel N. Jastram -- Muddying the water : metaphors for exegesis / John H. Corbett --

Harnack, Marcion and the argument of antiquity / Daniel H. Williams -- Acts of John: the gnostic transformation of a Christian community / Paul G. Schneider -- Trimorphic Protennoia and the wisdom tradition / Rosemary Halford -- Gnosis, theology and historical method / Schuyler Brown -- Gnosticism and the classical tradition / Scott C. Carroll -- Judaism and Gnosticism / Michel Desjardins -- Nomos empsychos in Philo and Clement of Alexandria / John Martens -- Gnosticism as heresy: the response of Irenaeus / Terrance Tiessen -- Tertullian on Athens and Jerusalem / Wendy E. Helleman -- "Spoils from Egypt," between Jews and Gnostics / Lawrence E. Frizzell -- Clement of Alexandria: instructions on how women should live / M. Eleanor Irwin -- Symbol and science in early Christian gnosis / Padraig O'Cleirigh.

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